Despite the terrible night we had she woke up happy and content to play and seems like her regular happy self, which is so great to see.
Again, we set right to work finding products and advice to help make Mackenzie more comfortable. We have ordered her a chair from IvyRose Spica Chairs and it should be shipped sometime next week. Mackenzie doesn't fit in the high chair we purchased when she was in the brace, so she doesn't have a lot of options for sitting upright. Right now, one of us holds her on our knee while the other feeds her for meal times. This chair will hopefully be used as a highchair as well as a play area for her.
We also ordered a Cast Cooler after seeing it mentioned several times by other "hip" parents online. I think one of our biggest issues is going to be trying to keep Mackenzie cool this summer while in a full body cast. Hopefully this will help provide some relief for her.
Brice went out and bought a ride-on trike for Mackenzie at Babies R Us, the 3 in 1 Smart Trike. She can be strapped into it and seems to be very secure and allows her to be upright.
We also set up a "play gym" system with her bean bag chair and Baby Einstein play mat.
But she is also perfectly happy to just scoot around on the floor and play with her toys:
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| We took the legs off her Activity Table and she still loves it! |
Army crawling around
We felt like we had so many questions that remained unanswered from when we were in the hospital. So when we phoned to book the follow-up appointment that will be in a couple weeks, I mentioned that to the Doctors secretary. She is so amazing and gave us a few options. We could tell her the questions and she would ask the Dr and get back to us. We could email her them and she would email us back with his answers and we could also call his Nurse Practitioner to ask her the questions as well. We decided to email her the questions so we are waiting to hear back now.
We also went for a walk with the InStep Bike Trailer that also converts to a stroller. It only required the slight modification of adding a pillow for support. For us this is great because it allows us to get out of the house when it is cool enough outside that we don't have to worry about Mackenzie getting too sweaty in her cast.
Night #2 she slept straight through the night without waking up at all! We had set our alarm to change her position half way through the night but either it didn't go off or we were so exhausted from the previous couple days that we didn't hear it. Her diaper wasn't too wet so all was well when she woke up, happy again, in the morning.
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